Friday 20070511 - Up at 0630 - Cat chores, Meds; Chris Rice; Back to bed and household chores and preparations; Lunch and "The New Yorker" - "Spider-Man 3"; Lunch and "The New Yorker" - Ralph Ellison; Fountain Grass; Candles; Home - plants, raking; Laptop; Nap, mowing front yard, sandwich, StarGate; Chris Rice; "Painkiller Jane"
(Web work - (Sat) 20070512-1940 / (Fri) 20070511 / (Fri) 20070511)

Cat chores. and all the that involves. Meds and all that that involves.

Christopher Rice in Central Park Larger image

I'm continuing to work on the pensive guys - Chris Rice section. But I managed to copy Chris' main file over Clive Owen's main file.

Well, that not exactly right. The file name said Clive Owen, but the contents belonged to Chris. I think I must have started off using Clive's file as a template, add Chris' info, then saved it back under Clive's name.

As maddening as this is, it is not unusual. And almost impossible to figure out exactly what you did. In this case I was able to recover Clive's file from the web server.

I love this photo of Chris with his indifferent stare, as though he was grudgingly accepting the camera's presence.

This is why I think pensive shots are so much more interesting that other types of shots. In a sense, you're close to the real person.

I went back to bed and was up again around 10. Enough time to do all the necessary household chores. And time to make myself presentable to world at large. Of course, the world may not be ready for me, but that its problem.

This time I had the May 7 issue of "TNY." One of my habits is to check the index for what movies are viewed. In this case it was "Spider-Man 3" and "The Treatment."

"There is one great scene in "Spider-Man 3," and you can pretty much leave the theatre once it's over, but for those three or four minutes you wouldn't want to be anywhere else." The scene is the one in which Thomas Hayden Church (Flint Marko) tumbles into the Particle Physics Test Facility and undergoes "demolecularaization." "...the sand lies till; then it stirs and heaves, and, like a crumbling Lazarus, Marko rises again, his legs sifting and scattering with the effort." (I would wonder about a facility open to the elements. Although, there is an external fence, it does not prevent someone or something from falling into the facility.)

"Once infected by the black stuff, he should by rights become an übernerd, but the movie can't decide what it wants. One moment he is being eyed by girls in the street, and the next they they are shying from him, as he struts along like John Travolta at the start of "Saturday Night Fever". (I comparison I made in my contours provocations - journal - 2007-0507 - mon 1840.)

Sometimes reviews, by no means limited to "TNY," can be unnecessarily snarky. As though they're overwhelmed by their own literary cleverness.

Concerning Peter's letting his bangs flop down over his brow: "He looks like the bronze medalist in a teen-age Hitler-impersonation contest."

"Some viewers will take the New Goblin, whose name sounds like a small-circulation poetry magazine..."

I also read an article about Ralph Ellison" and his novel "Invisible Man." He was working on a second novel, "Juneteenth." However, the manuscript was destroyed by fire in 1967 at his home in Plainfield, Massachusetts. (The article most likely was published to coincide with a new bio of Ellison, "Ralph Ellison: A Biography" by Arnold Rampersad.)

Ellison became greatly enamored of Faulkner and tried "to incorporate Faulkner's vast range and scope into a single work - a task that even Faulkner never accomplished." So by the time of his death in 1994, the book was still unfinished. "The two-thousand-page manuscript was posthumously edited and published in incomplete form in 1999."

(In - Friday - 20070511- 1112: $7.51 - cash)

I'd thought about the fact that Fads and Frames might run out of the Fountain Grass, I'd bought Monday. And I'd be force to go somewhere where the prices were much steeper. Also, I only had about 1/2 the plants I needed.

So back to F&F, I went. And it was a good idea, for there were only about ten plants left, of which I bought six.

(Out - Friday - 20070511 - 1259: $83.40 - Bank Debit Card) One receipt says 1259, and one says 1345.

F&F is in a strip mall that also includes Big Lots. Several times, I've been able to find candles there at reasonable prices. And this time, they had some in ceramic pots, which I especially like. Two of those, I bought; one, in the standard glass jar.

(Out - Friday - 20070511 - 1254: $14.98 - Cash) Time is at odds with one of 1259 at Fads & Frames..

Once home, I backed the car across the lawn to the bed and unloaded the six plants. Much more civilized way that parking in the car port and lugging them to the bed.

I changed clothes, and went back out and planted two more of the plants. I also learned if the hole is not deep enough, I can knock some of bottom soil off the plant.

Heavens forbid that I should not do a little raking. I was able to complete the section I'd mowed the other day, which gave me two containers. I guess I can mow another swath and rake again.

I came in around 1430, turned on the laptop, and worked on so more of the Chris Rice photos. I think I've gotten all the photos corrected, but I still need to work on the pages for the larger images.

In checking my email, I found a note from someone about a kitten I'd listed for adoption. Very strange. She obviously had the right e-mail address, or I would not have gotten the note. She wanted to come see the kitten early Saturday morning or anytime Sunday, and she included her phone number so I could contact her. I checked one of the on-line area code lists, and she lives in Georgia. I wrote back and said I was so sorry this has happened because I could tell how excited she was and wished her good luck.

From examining the history file, it looks like I spent an hour or so wandering around the web being very unproductive. Well, I guess I could say I was admiring the nude male form.

I took a very productive nap and woke around 1730.

Then in a moment of OCD behaviour, I decided to mow the front yard. I have yet to figure out the best way to do it, so that that the electrical cord does not get in the way. I finished around 1830, just in time to have a sandwich before StarGate

The events log file says I was using the laptop from 1921 - 2122. I think I found another set of errors in the Chris main page and to rework it. But at the same time, I was watching SG, so the process was slow.

By 2100 or so, I was tired of trying to unscramble errors, and decided to turn the laptop off and watch "Painkiller Jane."

Solicitation for a Merrick Bank credit card (junk); Solicitation for Capital One credit card (junk); Run off election of a retiree rep of the board of trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi (junk)

(Out - Saturday - 20070512 - 2300)